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Dr Bethan Wynne-Cattanach, University of Cambridge.
Tuesday 17 March 2026, 12:00-13:00
Department of Earth Sciences, Tilley Lecture Theatre
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1 upcoming talk View 128 archived talks
Department of Earth Sciences Seminars (downtown)
Large-eddy simulations of the ice-shelf-ocean boundary layer beneath basal terraces
Department of Earth Sciences Seminars (downtown)
Making Sense of a Geological Dog's Dinner - Petrology and Petrogenesis of the Motzfeldt REE-Nb-Ta deposit, South Greenland
Department of Earth Sciences Seminars (downtown)
Sulphur stories from the land, sulfur stories from the sea
Department of Earth Sciences Seminars (downtown)
The journey of volcanic crystals: the time lords of eruptive history
Department of Earth Sciences Seminars (downtown)
Iron rain and iron snow in planetary interiors: insights from fluids experiments
Department of Earth Sciences Seminars (downtown)
Assessing the role of the Gephyrocapsa complex during the Mid-Brunhes interval
Department of Earth Sciences Seminars (downtown)
Does the Isua supracrustal belt preserve the oldest sedimentary rocks on Earth?
Department of Earth Sciences Seminars (downtown)
Birth, Life and Death of the early animals of the Ediacaran
Department of Earth Sciences Seminars (downtown)
Core–mantle isotopic fractionation in large terrestrial planets
Department of Earth Sciences Seminars (downtown)
Insights into the drivers of Ediacaran-Cambrian phosphogenesis from phosphorites of the Khuvsgul Group, Mongolia
Department of Earth Sciences Seminars (downtown)
Decoding carbonate (bio)mineralisation using high-throughput mineralogy
Department of Earth Sciences Seminars (downtown)
Bridging the gap between isotope geochemistry and plant sciences
Department of Earth Sciences Seminars (downtown)
Formation and importance of copper-gold-iron deposits in back-arc environments
Department of Earth Sciences Seminars (downtown)
Mixing and melting: turbulence in the ice shelf/ocean boundary layer
Department of Earth Sciences Seminars (downtown)
Antarctic glacier geophysics - uncovering ice sheet evolution
Department of Earth Sciences Seminars (downtown)
Cambridge Zero: maximising Cambridge’s contribution towards a zero-carbon world through research, education, policy & innovation
Department of Earth Sciences Seminars (downtown)
Late Miocene Uplift of the Lesser Himalaya Recorded by Clumped Isotope Compositions of Detrital Carbonate
Department of Earth Sciences Seminars (downtown)
Carbon Capture and Mineralization
Department of Earth Sciences Seminars (downtown)
The early evolution of animal life and the generation of form
Department of Earth Sciences Seminars (downtown)
How crustal exhumation rates determine the fate of porphyry copper deposits
⚠️ Mineralogical Society Distinguished Lecturer 2024–25
Department of Earth Sciences Seminars (downtown)
The world’s least loved sedimentary structures: Sole marks as guides to flow dynamics, substrates, and the misidentification of life
Department of Earth Sciences Seminars (downtown)
Silica enrichment (and depletion) in the cratonic lithosphere
Department of Earth Sciences Seminars (downtown)
Self-organisation in mafic cumulates: differential migration of immiscible silicate liquids in the crystal mush
Department of Earth Sciences Seminars (downtown)
Direct observations of sub-ice environments immediately after large calving event off George VI Ice Shelf, West Antarctica
⚠️ To meet with the speaker, contact Ali Mashayek (am3158@cam.ac.uk)
Department of Earth Sciences Seminars (downtown)
From Sediment to Spodumene
Department of Earth Sciences Seminars (downtown)
Isotopic composition of samples returned from the Ryugu and Bennu asteroids - insights into the initial composition of the solar protoplanetary disk
Department of Earth Sciences Seminars (downtown)
Evolution and effects of ecosystem engineers through the Phanerozoic
Department of Earth Sciences Seminars (downtown)
Natural hazards in a warming world: landslides, volcanoes, and cryospheric hazards in the 21st century
Department of Earth Sciences Seminars (downtown)
Environmental controls on mineral-associated permafrost organic carbon fate
Department of Earth Sciences Seminars (downtown)
The interplay of large-scale tectonics, metamorphism, and earthquake cycles
Department of Earth Sciences Seminars (downtown)
Fluid Physics of Ice-Covered Oceans
Department of Earth Sciences Seminars (downtown)
Is the Atlantic overturning circulation on the brink of collapse?
Department of Earth Sciences Seminars (downtown)
A Systems Approach to Sustainability Transformation: science-based and stakeholders co-designed solution pathways
Department of Earth Sciences Seminars (downtown)
Exceptional preservation in tropical settings: A glimpse into the fossil record of northern South America
Department of Earth Sciences Seminars (downtown)
The post-Variscan evolution of Ireland – a case study in constraining shallow crustal exhumation and deformation
Department of Earth Sciences Seminars (downtown)
A geochemical test of the Snowball Earth hypothesis.
Department of Earth Sciences Seminars (downtown)
Active plate tectonics in the Paleoarchean
Department of Earth Sciences Seminars (downtown)
Exploring Central Africa's Lithium Pegmatites: Geology, Resource Potential, and Geopolitical context
Department of Earth Sciences Seminars (downtown)
The Red Queen, Mars, living and dying fast and young: macroevolution in graptoloids
Department of Earth Sciences Seminars (downtown)
The geologic history of marine dissolved organic carbon from iron (oxyhydr)oxides
Department of Earth Sciences Seminars (downtown)
Towards a 500 Million-Year History of Earth’s Atmospheric CO2
Department of Earth Sciences Seminars (downtown)
Mapping the core-mantle boundary
Department of Earth Sciences Seminars (downtown)
Fresh perspectives on the origins of major animal groups: insights from the late Ediacaran of Namibia
Sedgwick Club talks
What has Earth's magnetic field ever done for us? The role of the geodynamo in creating a habitable planet (Sedgwick Club Conference)
Sedgwick Club talks
A journey in (geo)science communication (Sedgwick Club Conference)
Sedgwick Club talks
Journey to the centre of the earthquake (Sedgwick Club Conference)
Sedgwick Club talks
Towards developing an Indian Ocean Dipole Watch System for Southeast Asia (Sedgwick Club Conference)
Department of Earth Sciences Seminars (downtown)
Preservation of very old climate records in ice cores from Allan Hills, Antarctica
Sedgwick Club talks
Destruction and regrowth of lithospheric mantle beneath large igneous provinces (Sedgwick Club Conference)
Department of Earth Sciences Seminars (downtown)
Microbial responses to warming and their impact on carbon stocks
Department of Earth Sciences Seminars (downtown)
Paallavvik Island and the search for Earth's primitive water
Department of Earth Sciences Seminars (downtown)
The TTG window and the formation of Earth’s earliest continental crust.
Department of Earth Sciences Seminars (downtown)
Rapid temperature fluctuations in the early Iceland plume revealed by olivine-spinel and melt thermometry
Department of Earth Sciences Seminars (downtown)
Data-driven slow earthquake dynamics
Department of Earth Sciences Seminars (downtown)
Antarctic summer sea-ice variability reconstructed from novel biological archives
Department of Earth Sciences Seminars (downtown)
At the Edge of Reactivity: Exploring the Dynamics of Fluid-Mineral Interactions
Department of Earth Sciences Seminars (downtown)
A paleoclimate perspective on the (in)stability of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet
Department of Earth Sciences Seminars (downtown)
The Holocene history of Thwaites and Pine Island glaciers, West Antarctica, revealed through subaerial and subglacial archives
Department of Earth Sciences Seminars (downtown)
How to form a rare-earth rich carbonatite, and why that might be a good thing
Department of Earth Sciences Seminars (downtown)
Metals, Magnetism and Meteorites: A brief guide to magnetic field generation on small planetary bodies
Department of Earth Sciences Seminars (downtown)
Integrative Neuroanatomy and The Origin of Birds
Department of Earth Sciences Seminars (downtown)
Teaching a new trick to old data: reassessing the Neogene history of C4 grasses in the Great Plains of North America
Department of Earth Sciences Seminars (downtown)
Atlantification of the Arctic Ocean Turbulence
Department of Earth Sciences Seminars (downtown)
After the Moon
Department of Earth Sciences Seminars (downtown)
Salty waters: Life’s origins and biological habitability on Earth (and Mars?)
Department of Earth Sciences Seminars (downtown)
Novel applications of non-traditional stable isotopes to studying near-equilibrium geochemical kinetics with applications to carbon removal and storage
Department of Earth Sciences Seminars (downtown)
Seawater calcium concentration may be a key driver of long-term pCO2
Department of Earth Sciences Seminars (downtown)
A new look at the past provides perspectives for biodiversity management
Department of Earth Sciences Seminars (downtown)
A chronostratigraphic framework for the Ediacaran Period and the chronostratigraphic potential of sedimentary carbonates using U-Pb carbonate LA-ICP-MS
Department of Earth Sciences Seminars (downtown)
Nick Shackleton and the Big White Box in the Car Park
Department of Earth Sciences Seminars (downtown)
Preservation of H2O heterogeneity in the Icelandic mantle
Department of Earth Sciences Seminars (downtown)
Ice, mud, and models: how paleo data assimilation is helping illuminate our geologic past
Department of Earth Sciences Seminars (downtown)
Taphonomy and The Tree: are Fossil Taxa Misleadingly "Primitive"?
Department of Earth Sciences Seminars (downtown)
The eruptive tempo and long-term behaviour of open vent volcanoes
Department of Earth Sciences Seminars (downtown)
A pinch of salt: Halogen cycling through the solid Earth
Department of Earth Sciences Seminars (downtown)
Rewriting the tale of deep-ocean upwelling
Department of Earth Sciences Seminars (downtown)
A Palaeontological view of the modern climate and biodiversity crisis
Department of Earth Sciences Seminars (downtown)
Geochemical Insights into Antarctic Ice Sheet Stability
Department of Earth Sciences Seminars (downtown)
The Stegosaurian Dinosaurs
Department of Earth Sciences Seminars (downtown)
Biogenic magnetite tracing of ocean oxygenation across Cenozoic warming events
Department of Earth Sciences Seminars (downtown)
Battery Metals: Formation and the race to Net Zero
Department of Earth Sciences Seminars (downtown)
Understanding the Lithosphere
Department of Earth Sciences Seminars (downtown)
Raising the Colorado Plateau – tales from xenoliths and petrological modeling
Department of Earth Sciences Seminars (downtown)
Quantifying complexity in challenging data: fault slip rates on millennial timescales
Department of Earth Sciences Seminars (downtown)
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Department of Earth Sciences Seminars (downtown)
Cold Blood in Hot Times: Using the vertebrate fossil record to understand biotic responses to climate change
Special Seminars Department of Earth Science
Climatic implications of deep ocean turbulence
Special Seminars Department of Earth Science
Freshwater forcing and abrupt climate change: insights from high-resolution models
Special Seminars Department of Earth Science
The global biological microplastic particle sink
Special Seminars Department of Earth Science
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Special Seminars Department of Earth Science
Reconstructing Aerosol Cycling in the Earth’s Deep Past: The Case of Dust
Special Seminars Department of Earth Science
Chemistry-Climate interactions: Using hierarchies of numerical models
Department of Earth Sciences Seminars (downtown)
The eccentricities of calcite production by coccolithophores
Department of Earth Sciences Seminars (downtown)
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Department of Earth Sciences Seminars (downtown)
Investigating the role of ozone-depleting substances in driving observed and projected Arctic climate change
Special Seminars Department of Earth Science
Investigating the role of ozone-depleting substances in driving observed and projected Arctic climate change
Department of Earth Sciences Seminars (downtown)
Crust formation and deformation on the rapidly rotating early Earth
Department of Earth Sciences Seminars (downtown)
[Geoscience in Context] Skills for sustainable geoscience: evidencing transition in Energy and Higher Education
Department of Earth Sciences Seminars (downtown)
The evolution of the geobiological nitrogen cycle
⚠️ This is a hybrid event. The talk will be given via Zoom (https://zoom.us/j/99984123581), and screened live in the Tilley Lecture Theatre.
Department of Earth Sciences Seminars (downtown)
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Department of Earth Sciences Seminars (downtown)
Mid-Cenozoic faunal dynamics in the Western Branch of the EARS: A view from the Rukwa Rift Basin
Department of Earth Sciences Seminars (downtown)
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Department of Earth Sciences Seminars (downtown)
Priming patterns of volcanic eruptions revealed by deep-time diffusion chronometry
Department of Earth Sciences Seminars (downtown)
Crust formation and deformation on the rapidly rotating early Earth
Department of Earth Sciences Seminars (downtown)
The origin of stress- and fluid-driven seismicity in volcanic settings: a laboratory perspective
⚠️ This is a hybrid event. It will be live in the Tilley Lecture Theatre and broadcast on Zoom (https://zoom.us/j/99984123581)
Department of Earth Sciences Seminars (downtown)
A view across rifting events: Late Cretaceous continental faunas of Eastern Africa and Madagascar
⚠️ This is a hybrid event. It will be live in the Tilley Lecture Theatre and broadcast on Zoom (https://zoom.us/j/99984123581)
Department of Earth Sciences Seminars (downtown)
Reconstructing CO2 change on 100 to 100 million year timescales
⚠️ This is a hybrid event. It will be live in the Tilley Lecture Theatre and broadcast on Zoom (https://zoom.us/j/99984123581)
Department of Earth Sciences Seminars (downtown)
Disentangling polar biogeochemistry through (silicon) isotope geochemistry
⚠️ This is a hybrid event. It will be live in the Tilley Lecture Theatre and broadcast on Zoom (https://zoom.us/j/99984123581)
Department of Earth Sciences Seminars (downtown)
Using ecology to unlock the secrets of early animal evolution
⚠️ This is a hybrid event. It will be live in the Tilley Lecture Theatre and broadcast on Zoom (https://zoom.us/j/99984123581)
Department of Earth Sciences Seminars (downtown)
Using ecology to unlock the secrets of early animal evolution
Department of Earth Sciences Seminars (downtown)
Fast faults and fluids in the earthquake cycle
⚠️ This is a hybrid event. It will be live in the Tilley Lecture Theatre and broadcast on Zoom (https://zoom.us/j/99984123581)
Department of Earth Sciences Seminars (downtown)
Geoscience in Context: Tackling the diversity crisis in Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences
⚠️ This is a hybrid event. The talk will be given via Zoom (https://zoom.us/j/99984123581), and screened live in the Tilley Lecture Theatre.
Department of Earth Sciences Seminars (downtown)
Productivity and dissolved oxygen controls on the Southern Ocean deep-sea benthos during the Antarctic Cold Reversal
⚠️ This is a hybrid event. The talk will be given via Zoom (https://zoom.us/j/99984123581), and screened live in the Tilley Lecture Theatre.
Department of Earth Sciences Seminars (downtown)
Marine sedimentary carbon cycling
⚠️ This is a hybrid event. It will be live in the Tilley Lecture Theatre and broadcast on Zoom (https://zoom.us/j/99984123581)
Department of Earth Sciences Seminars (downtown)
The influence of seawater infiltration on oceanic transform fault slip behavior
⚠️ This is a hybrid event. The talk will be given via Zoom (https://zoom.us/j/99984123581), and screened live in the Tilley Lecture Theatre.
Department of Earth Sciences Seminars (downtown)
The history of the global carbon cycle as recorded by the chemical composition of shallow-water marine carbonate sediments
⚠️ This is a hybrid event. It will be live in the Tilley Lecture Theatre and broadcast on Zoom (https://zoom.us/j/99984123581)
Cambridge Volcanology Seminar
New PhD students introductions - Cambridge Volcanology
Special Seminars Department of Earth Science
Elucidating redox conditions in ancient environments using iron mineralogy
Special Seminars Department of Earth Science
The meteorite dichotomy and its implications for the growth history of Jupiter
Special Seminars Department of Earth Science
Icy ocean world interiors
Special Seminars Department of Earth Science
Fluids in the Earth
Special Seminars Department of Earth Science
Reading Biominerals to Understand Past and Future Climates
Special Seminars Department of Earth Science
Merging radar with models: Getting new geophysical insights into the subsurface system of ice sheets
Sedgwick Club talks
Planetary geology and the long-term scientific benefits of space resources
⚠️ Part of Sedgwick Club Conference 2017
Sedgwick Club talks
Indirect signatures of life in the alluvial stratigraphic record
⚠️ Part of Sedgwick Club Conference 2017
Sedgwick Club talks
A lot of hot air: gas in volcanic eruptions
⚠️ Part of Sedgwick Club Conference 2017
Sedgwick Club talks
It's O(1) compaction length to Cambridge: successes and challenges for magma dynamics since McKenzie (1984)
⚠️ Part of Sedgwick Club Conference 2017
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